Press Release
May 2, 2008

Pia: Impending cabinet revamp smacks of patronage politics

Senator Pia S. Cayetano today warned against the Arroyo government's reported plan to appoint losing administration candidates to cabinet posts once the one-year appointment ban against them lapses this month.

Cayetano said the plan "smacks of patronage politics where personal loyalties and connections, instead of a person's qualifications and competence, become the primary consideration for putting people in crucial cabinet posts."

"Allowing public services to be sacrificed for political paybacks and to accommodate unqualified people in the cabinet amount to a grave disservice to the people," she added.

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